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Well if you think about the function of the hood scoop and the splitter is to bring air into your intercooler and onto your turbo. If you remove that factor your going to have A MAJOR less cooling efficiency. SO like everyone else said. Just drive normal and don't be jetting around anywhere.

So yea, just stay out of boost. Why are you taking it off for a couple days anyways?

Well if you think about the function of the hood scoop and the splitter is to bring air into your intercooler and onto your turbo. If you remove that factor your going to have A MAJOR less cooling efficiency. SO like everyone else said. Just drive normal and don't be jetting around anywhere.

So yea, just stay out of boost. Why are you taking it off for a couple days anyways?

^^What he said, but I'd like to add on that what will happen is that your car will pull timing due to the warmer IAT. It'll be almost as if you were running no intercooler at all.

^^What he said, but I'd like to add on that what will happen is that your car will pull timing due to the warmer IAT. It'll be almost as if you were running no intercooler at all.

IAT is measured at the MAF, before the intercooler. Not passing air over the intercooler will have zero effect on measured IAT. It will raise actual IAT, but the ECU doesn't know that, so if you get on it you might start knocking. That said, do as everyone else has said and stay out of boost.

IAT is measured at the MAF, before the intercooler. Not passing air over the intercooler will have zero effect on measured IAT. It will raise actual IAT, but the ECU doesn't know that, so if you get on it you might start knocking. That said, do as everyone else has said and stay out of boost.

That's what I meant. Sorry, yes, the timing will be pulled because of the knocking, not because the car reads the higher IAT.

Thanks for the responses. This is my first turbo'd car so I'm kinda clueless. But I'm also an over thinker too so a leak down and compression test is the only way to find out if somethings wrong? It still runs fine and sounds fine but I worry a lot

I haven't driven it much so its hard to tell if it's slowed down. It still feels quick, if the timing has changed Its not real noticable. Everything sounds and feels fine to me but I can't tell if something might be off a little. That's why I was looking for a way to test it and eliminate the possiblity of something being wrong.